Foreign Students

News about Foreign Students, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Dec. 7, 2014

Chuck Klosterman The Ethicist column answers questions about college's responsibilities to foreign students who do not speak English well, new student orientation on college campuses and error on test drawn up by college professor. MORE

Oct. 8, 2014

Russia's abrupt decision to cancel longstanding high school exchange program with United States has unforeseen consequence of opening more slots for students from Ukraine; program, initiated at the end of the Cold War, provides scholarships for students from former Soviet Union to live with an American family and study at an American high school. MORE

Aug. 30, 2014

Universities and colleges in the United States see little risk from Ebola virus but also admit that they have limited ability to track students' travels or their health; many are questioning students from countries hit by the outbreak, and asking others who have visited to step forward voluntarily. MORE

Apr. 27, 2014

The Upshot; reasons for why it is harder to get into selective colleges now as compared with decades ago are not well understood; one overlooked factor is that top colleges, for whom foreign students have become a revenue source, are admitting fewer American students than they did a generation ago. MORE

Mar. 12, 2014

Oregon State University is among growing number of academic institutions that are teaming up with private companies to lure foreign students by offering yearlong transitional programs; trend is effort to increase enrollment of foreigners by bridging cultural divide between what it means to be college student in their own countries and in United States. MORE

Jul. 12, 2013

Report by National Foundation for American Policy says international students make up 70 percent of full-time electrical engineering graduate students in United States. MORE

Jul. 8, 2013

Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, two 16-year-old victims of Asiana Flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco International Airport, were among 34 10th-grade Chinese students and chaperones who were bound for a summer camp outside Los Angeles. MORE

May. 13, 2013

Growing number of teenagers from wealthy families in China are attending private schools in New York City, seeking an advantage in admission to American universities; Homeland Security Dept reports that 638 Chinese students with visas attended high schools in the city in 2012, up from 114 five years earlier. MORE

May. 4, 2013

Department of Homeland Security orders new security checks for all foreign students entering United States; move is prompted by discovery that Azamat Tazhayakov, friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had left and returned to US using student visa that should have been cancelled. MORE

Apr. 13, 2013

Some Washington State lawmakers, as way to raise revenues, propose 20 percent tuition surcharge for international students at state's public universities and community colleges; critics say surcharge could force such students to go elsewhere. MORE

Apr. 8, 2013

Council of Graduate Schools report shows number of international students applying to graduate schools in United States increased just 1 percent in 2013, after 9 percent rise in 2012 and 11 percent gain in 2011. MORE

Dec. 6, 2012

Senate Democrats block Republicans from bringing up a House-passed immigration bill offering permanent residence visas for foreigners with advanced degrees from American universities. MORE

Sep. 19, 2012

House Republican leaders, hoping to pass a measure before the November elections to improve legal immigration, are pushing for a vote on a bill that would allocate up to 55,000 permanent resident visas for foreigners graduating from American universities with advanced degrees in science and technology. MORE

Sep. 3, 2012

A growing number of Muslims are thriving in Roman Catholic colleges in the United States, with students saying they prefer a place where religious talk and observance are encouraged. MORE

Feb. 5, 2012

Green River Community College near Seattle has enrolled 1,400 international students in 2012, most of them recruited by agents who get 15 percent of the $9,732 first-year tuition; such recruiting agents are illegal in the United States, and their use abroad remains a highly divisive and hotly debated issue in higher education circles. MORE

Nov. 9, 2011

State Department announces plan to limit the number of foreign university students in its popular Summer Work and Travel program; plan is part of effort to keep the program from growing while officials work to repair problems highlighted in August when hundreds of international students staged a walkout to protest their work conditions at a plant packing Hershey's chocolates in Palmyra, Pa. MORE

Nov. 6, 2011

Chinese students' applications to American universities has tripled in three years, making them the largest group of foreign students at American colleges; sudden influx presents schools with challenge of how to bridge cultural gap. MORE

Oct. 14, 2011

Number of Indian students studying in United States is surging as competition for admission to top Indian institutions has made that goal nearly unattainable; with about half of India's 1.2 billion people under age of 25, and ranks of middle class swelling, country's handful of highly selective universities are overwhelmed; some students say greater intellectual freedom of American education is also a draw. MORE

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